at Octavia and Washington:

“A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?”

photography saved my life

  
 

a ton of pics from yesterday posted to my flickr.

some random door on Bay Street.

I want a decent P&S coz lugging my SLR around isn’t all that convenient, to put my money where my mouth is, I pre-ordered the Fujifilm F50fd 2 weeks ago. From the specs this thing is exactly what I want:

• ISO 6400; in ISO 3200 the res drops down to 6MP, and in 6400 it drops down to 3MP. But 3/6MP sharp pics >> 12MP blurry ones.
• CCD-shift image stabilization,
• 12M effective px,
• full manual,
• aperture-priority and shutter-priority exposure modes,
• quick response time and 5fps at 3MP,
• VGA movie capture with sound for possibly making some waywt videos,
• and face detection is semi-useful when you ask others to help take your snapshots.
• all this for under $300!

Fuji’s F50fd page

buy it:

Will report back when I get it. I still wish it would record in RAW so I can do so much more with the pics. I am also keeping an eye on the new Panasonic cameras, I have plenty of time to cancel the F50fd pre-order. 🙂

Didn’t shoot today, but I have some random street people photography from Labor Day:

They call him Zen, I don’t think that is his real name. I heard that he was a good looking guy and had a family, and he still owns a building in North Beach. A few years back something happened to him and now he chainsmokes and drinks coffee all day. I tried to talk to him a few times but he never responded. Maybe my waywt pics will look like this is a few decades. 🙂

And HH at International is a great spot to take a break from shooting daily photos… cheers!

Yesterday I experimented with higher shutter speeds after going to SF MOMA for the Martin Munkacsi exhibition (amazing stuff! everyone in SF should definitely go check it out!). Here are two shots: